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Weekend Update

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Movies, Site News

This update was par­tially delayed due to some prob­lems with our domain name. And depend­ing on what the old bank bal­ance looks like after pay­ing my bills; I’ll be see­ing about mov­ing mus­ings to it’s new host/domain name/style (maybe).

Most days of the week, I end up stay­ing up far later into the night than is good for me; so I sleep late on the week­ends to help catch up on my sleep. This last week­end, I actu­ally man­aged to drag my sleepy but out of bed and make it to the bank so I could store some stuff in my safety deposit box. Whew!

After I got back from the bank; Ariesna and I headed over to the Coralville Pub­lic Library Book­sale. We picked up a few inter­est­ing look­ing books, includ­ing one that I later started hop­ing wasn’t some­body else’s purchase.

See, CPL has a free­bie sec­tion and a pur­chase sec­tion. We always go into the pur­chase sec­tion first and buy what­ever strikes our fancy before going through the free­bies. We’d done that and while look­ing through the free­bies; I noticed a small book, titled Under­stand­ing the Scots, in a box near the door into the pur­chase sec­tion. Being part Scot­tish, I picked it up and started flip­ping through it. While I did this I turned around to see what Ariesna might be up to and then turned back to see if any other books in that box were of inter­est. Alas, the box was gone. Now, I don’t know if those were sup­posed to belong to some­body else (e.g. they’d fin­ished in the pur­chase sec­tion and just set the box down) or if they were legit­i­mate free­bies and some­body grabbed the box with all the rest of the books. *sigh* I doubt I’ll ever find out.

After the book­sale, we headed to down­town Iowa City for their 2004 Art Fes­it­val. We did a lot of walk­ing around look­ing at all the cool stuff and I bought Ariesna a sil­ver bracelet with a daisy in the pen­dent on the bracelet. She loved it and was going to just walk away from it, but I couldn’t have that so I bought it. While I’m not sure that it was a sound finan­cial move; the smile on her face was well worth it.

Oh and I took some pho­tos of the Art Fes­ti­val with my new cam­era but I haven’t had a chance to go through them yet. Once I have; I’ll see about post­ing them here.

Later in the after­noon, we met up with Ariesna’s sis­ter (Dee) and her hus­band (Ken) to see Harry Pot­ter and the Pris­oner of Azk­a­ban (Harry Pot­ter 3). To sum it up, I think the over­all pro­duc­tion val­ues were higher in this film than any of the oth­ers but the story was very badly hacked up and if you’ve not read the book; I can’t image how you’d be able to fol­low what was going on. Still, if you’re a fan of the series; it’s worth see­ing on a matinee.

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